The Future Speaks
Interview with: Zachary Wohlman – Welterweight 147Lbs
Location: Wild Card Gym Hollywood California
We are here with 2009 Los Angeles Golden Gloves Champion and the hottest boxing prospect in Southern California Zac Wohlman.
AG: Zac Where are you from?
ZW: ZW: I went to a military school when I was 14, I was just real angry and I didn’t know how to control myself, so they put me in the ring.
ZW: Absolutely, I’m with Freddy Roach I've got Golden Boy taking looking at me, I've got possible opportunities from Jackie Kallen, Steve Fedor and a few guys in New York everything is going real nice. I have been a sparring partner for Paulie Malignaggi , Amir Kahn, Shawn Porter, pretty much anyone that had walked into the Wild Card I’ve been in the ring with.
ZW: When I came to into Wildcard I was just a slugger, I was a street kid. Freddy and Eric Brown really refined that and taught me to be a nice polished boxer. Good strong jab, good speed, good head movement and keep pushing forward.
ZW: No, I’m a huge boxing fan I watch all the way back to Jack Johnson, Sugar Ray Leonard, Sugar Ray Robinson, Jersey Joe Walcott I’m just a huge fan of the sport.
ZW: My weight welterweight 147 that’s the money I ain’t watching no heavyweight the Klitchko’s and other European styles are boring.
ZW: Maybe I’m going to start at 147 I got enormous legs so at 147 I’m real comfortable. We are going to see how it goes after the 1st fight maybe go down to 140 if there is a title at stake, but I know I would be real strong at 147 I walk around at about 154.
ZW: I think that guys are pushing to much water out of their system to make the extra weight and when we hear about brain damage and things like that I think it could be do to that. When you look at guys from the 40’s and 50’s a lot of them still got it. You are welterweight or a middle you are what you are I don’t like the sub divisions. It’s dangerous I could be at 140 but I shouldn’t
ZW: Off the top of my head Paulie Malignaggi I’m one of his sparring partners he's taught me so much. Great jab, knows how to use his legs, measure distance. Along with taking time outside the ring to teach me the business of the sport, can't help but look up to the guy.
ZW: The top guys are not going to be there the Manny Pacquiao the Mayweathers I’m looking at the up and comers at 147. I would like Brandon Rios, I know he is struggling to make 135 he goes up and I go down.... I'm one of Freddie's fighters, he's been like a father to me, I'm sure that's enough said.
ZW: I think our champion is on a football field right now.
ZW: Absolutely. My Generation never really had a heavyweight. I was born in 1988 and that what the end of the Larry Holmes beginning of the Mike Tyson era by the time I was 4 or 5 Tyson was finished with his career. You had Lenox Lewis but I was never into him. I only know current heavyweights from research I’ve done. I only want to watch welterweights if I watch heavyweights it will be some Joe Louis, Joe Frazier, Muhammad Ali I love watching those guys.
ZW: I’m just coming up so I’m just hearing about all these belts they should have just one belt. Ring does have the pound for pound so that's cool but yeah there needs to be only one World Champion.
ZW: Yeah
ZW: He would get his ASS WHOOPED! I think MMA is a fight boxing is a sport. I wouldn’t want to run into a MMA guy on the street but I don’t street fight I’m a boxer. This is the Sweet Science that’s what I train for
